Our only options were to remove the extension or manage it.

The best option is of course to install another browser and remove chrome.

That’s the whole point.

Meanwhile in the EU: TikTok, five other Chinese firms hit by EU privacy complaints

No. This is no help if YouTube blocks your IP range. And it’s not a podcast feed.

Yes, but many YouTube channels don’t have a RSS podcast equivalent. YouTube is somewhat of a walled garden, like Spotify is.

I don’t know. My ISP doesn’t know. And I won’t bother interacting with Google’s non-existing support.

My solution is moving away from YouTube whenever possible, for instance subscripting to podcast instead when a creator has a podcast with the same content.

YouTube has blocked a bunch of IP ranges, including residential ones, forcing people to use an account to watch videos. So self-hosting isn’t an option for everyone.